A non-profit organization dedicated to the eradication of all student loan debt through activism, education, and legislation;
because student loan debt is dangerous to the US economy and to the health and well-being of individual Americans and their families.
CRYN JOHANNSEN, Founder & Executive Director

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Check Out This Blog - Law Professor at Tier 1 School Sides with the Scambloggers!

A law professor at a Tier 1 school has sided with the scambloggers. His new blog, "Inside the Law School Scam," will certainly be a big hit. This is great news for the scambloggers. They have provided stats and shown how law schools have rigged the employment numbers, and now they have a professor who has come on board.

1 comment:

Anonymous
said...

Interesting. The author of that blog is a very good writer. It seems to me that the "scam" he (or she?) notes is not at all specific to law school, but is largely the same for higher education in general. Absurdly high education costs for delivery of content that is not unique and doesn't require a highly paid professor, so that students can obtain a credential that, at least in the current economy, seems to be of declining value.

At least part of that message has started to get mainstream publicity. For example, Prof Glenn Reynolds often covers the "education bubble" in his very popular "Instapundit" blog, especially as it relates to the law school bubble. Reynolds is a law school professor, and doesn't (at least publicly on his blog) show the same level of cynicism about the value of the actual teaching, but still brings up the essence of the problem.

Also noteworthy, I think, is that Reynolds is a libertarian. Many of the others that I've seen commenting about such things seem to be of a liberal/progressive bent. The point being that this is NOT a partisan issue limit to one part of the political spectrum.

Cryn Johannsen

Cryn Johannsen, Founder and Executive Director of All Education Matters, Inc., is the author Solving the Student Loan Crisis: Dreams, Diplomas, and a Lifetime of Debt(New Insights Press, 2016; available now on Amazon inpaperback andKindle).

She has spent many years in academic environments, giving her an insider's understanding of the varying forms of educational institutions and how they function. Ms. Johannsen worked for an academic publishing company, but now advocates for individuals who are struggling or unable to pay off their student loan debt on Capitol Hill.

In addition to her previous employment, Ms. Johannsen has been a student at multiple levels at multiple institutions, beginning at a community college, graduating with honors from the University of Kansas, and receiving MAs from both the University of Chicago and Brown University (where she also participated in an exchange scholar program with Harvard). She is an experienced researcher and instructor, and has focused her own education on the study of History and the Social Sciences.

Ms. Johannsen is available to give talks and do workshops on this critical topic.

Ms. Johannsen's book has been reviewed by the New York Review of Books in Rana Foroohar's article "How the Financing of May Lead to Leader." In addition, intellectuals, such as Henry Giroux and Andrew Ross endorsed it.

This blog, All Education Matters, will be digitally archived by the Library of Congress in November of 2017.

About me

Author of Solving the Student Loan Crisis: Dreams, Diplomas & a Lifetime of Debt (New Insights Press) - now available at Amazon in paperback and Kindle.
Founder and Executive Director of All Education Matters(AEM), a 501(c)(4); I am a freelance journalist for The Huffington Post, The Loop 21, and Hypervocal. My work has appeared in USA Today, Truthout.org, The New England Journal of Higher Education, etc.
Recipient of journalism grant from the Economic Hardship and Reporting Project (EHRP) to cover a story about suicides and student loan debt (published by the Huffington Post and on the EHRP site; edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Garvy Rivlin) - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/c-cryn-johannsen/student-loan-debt-suicides_b_1638972.html